so i have a question: have you ever woke up in the morning, feeling the soft breeze of morning air, while your skin rejoice the warm morning sunlight, and then you said to yourself, " hey ! i wanna be a fucking veggie ! "? that happened to me last saturday ( 11th of november ).
it was like any other ordinary saturday morning, i woke up at about 9 a.m. and found out that i had dry semen in my pajama pants. man these wet dreams are crazy, i can't control them anymore! i used to knew really well how my body works sexually but this is just too much, too messy. i guess i should reduce watching documentaries about monkeys having sex. i also think that by turning into a vegetarian, i'll have more wet dreams without being messy at the end, which is nice; but i'll talk about my wet-dream-on-a-basis topic next time ladies.
so i took a nice warm bath. turned on the tv for some recent news. oh not again ! another japanese kid, this time from saitama, committed suicide because he can't stand being bullied in school. he's just 11 years old. how sad. for those who didn't know, the current ' boom ' in japan right now is helpless elementary/junior high school students committing suicide because they're being bullied at school; but the management people from the school won't acknowledge the fact that bullying did exist in their school, just for the sake of protecting the school's good image.
japan is already famous with it's weird suicidal people but kids being infected by this horrible ' virus ' is very new and worrying because japanese live longer, yet having fewer children resulting a shrinking workforce that could choke even the world's second economy power. japanese people work very hard because they think that by having wealth, they would be happy. but they are not always right. although japan is a very wealthy country, it seems that they're not so happy. social pressure seem to be the biggest problem here because the japanese really care about their image, making them always restraining themself in every action taken in their society. wait a minute, i'm kind of lost here so let's skip this topic hehe.
so noverber the 11th is also the day sony launched it's next generation game console: the ps3 in japan, going head to head with rival company microsoft with their xbox 360 and nintendo with their very different wii. ps3 with the revolutionary CELL; a super microprocessor developed in a joint effort by IBM, Sony and Toshiba ( which is ironic because Sony is in a deathmatch with Toshiba over the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ); is the giant japanese company's only hope to recover their broken image after some incidents that tarnished it's image ( laptop battery overheat resulting fire, lost in portable music market to Apple, intrusive virus-like cd-copying security etc. ).
the 20gb version of ps3 is sold at a very steep price ( at least for a game console ) at 49850 yen; and don't be surprised when i told you that the production cost of one ps3 is more that the street price, at about 70000 yen !!! although sony lost about 20000 yen every ps3 sold, they are hoping to recover the deficit with it's software sale and licensing. they did the same thing with the ps2, and they have been churning HUGE profits just after 2 years in it's life cycle and have been conquering almost 60% of the game console market. microsoft did the same thing when it launched it's first gaming console, the xbox, so that it's more competitively-priced, but failed to gain any profit and turn a red check into a blue one. but xbox is not a total failure because it has stolen at least 20% of the market share once dominated by nintendo and sony, and that's a success story for a rookie in this competitive business. and microsoft has used that market it gained during the last-gen period to set foot their next and MUCH better game console: xbox360. launching 1 year earlier than sony and nintendo, robust and proven LIVE! network of online gaming, reasonable pricing and great exclusive titles ( gears of war, halo 3 etc. ); all these positive traits from the software company has denied easy entry for sony this time around.
although ps3 is surely a bleeding edge high-tech machine that every single male ( the female gamer is increasing everyday though ) wants their hands on, sony has been messing around with their production line, unable to deliver their promise to have 2million units ready at launch. they're only launching with 100000 units in japan ( an another 400000 units for northern america come this 17th november ) ! that's 1/10 of what they have delivered during the ps2 launch, and that machine was sold out just minutes after launch ! the japanese gamers are sure desperate enough to have the ps3 at launch that they pay chinese homeless people 20000 yen to wait in line for them to buy the ps3 when the store opens at launch day.
i'm no analyst, but i predict in the end of the life cycle of these 3 game consoles, the market share this time won't be conquered by sony anymore. it's going to be like ps3 38%, xbox 32% and wii 30%. and that could be another way around because this round of console wars is very competitive and unpredictable. i'll watch with much anticipation. i want a ps3 and xbox 360 though. what about the wii ? meeh the wii is for kiddies and casual gamers. i'm a true gamer so ps3 and xbox 360 is the way to go, at least for me.
so i would like to end this today's long post. and yeah about me being vegetarian, i give up on the fourth day. it's been fun but oh my god i can't live without meat ! but to think about it again, i've done more than i thought i couldn't.
arr i'm still undecided whether to go back to malaysia this winter holiday or not. i'm only be able to stay in malaysia for a mere 18 days because winter holiday is very short here in nagano kousen. the ticket home and back would probably cost me around 70000 yen *including tax (that is not cheap but still a lot more cheaper than during the summer holidays). there are advantages and also annoying disadvantages in every choice that i'm going to make concerning this.
if i DO choose to go back, the advantages would be 1) i can go back duuh ! but this is kind of a big thing because i haven't gone back this whole year, and i ALWAYS go back at least once a year. 2) i can get myself a modded ps2 and maybe if i'm lucky enough, even a XBOX360 woot! and i can also go to a much cheaper jeans shop to repair my many unfit-to-wear jeans.
* arr in 10 minutes they are going to cut the internet connection. i'll continue tomorrow.
so what's the disadvantages of going home? actually there is none but i'll make it up anyways: 1) money, money, money. the total cost for transportation is going to be around 70000yen. and every time i went back home, i MUST spend at least 90000 yen; buying gifts, eating a LOT of different kinds of food then regretting the aftermath ( that is having a rather large and disturbing belly ) and just throwing away money to the poor. that would sum up to be a huge loss of my precious rakyat money ! but i can always restrain myself from spending too much, right? just buy the modded xbox360 and forget about the rest ok?! 2) i would miss this year's new year celebration at yuusei's house. i heard that his father ( a man that doesn't speak to much ) are going to actually take out the spider-web raped omochi tools and make omochi this year surrounded by 3 meters high wall of snow !! that would be fun and i also want to meet his friendly mom and two sisters ! but if i go back, i could celebrate hari raya haji in the warm bright sun of malaysia and see again how gory it is for us human to slaughter an animal so that we could fill our stomach with nice delicacies. so i guess this is not a disadvantage. like i said before, there is NO disadvantage in going back home for a short holiday. the only thing that bugs me is that the holidays is too short, compared to summer holiday.
arr stop complaining already and go home! i've already contacted my travel agency and currently i'm waiting for their reply. i hope there are seats for me, i think i'm going to be quite OK because i book early. now the only thing i should do now is to do a little bit more research about hacked and modded xbox 360, and then study a little bit for the coming mid-semester exam. oh yeah i know how to spend the malaysian people's money quite efficiently !
